Conrad P. Armbrecht Mobile, Alabama
| Partner | |
| phone | (251) 405-1318 (251) 405-1300 |
| fax | (251) 432-6843 (251) 433-3821 |
| cpa@ajlaw.com | |
Mr. Armbrecht has practiced law in Mobile for over 30 years. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for over 20 years. He regularly advises oil and gas companies with respect to all matters relating to oil and gas activities in Alabama, including lease acquisition, joint operating agreements, title issues, land owner disputes and the like. During his career, he has litigated a number of significant issues of first impression such as the ownership of coalbed methane in Alabama and the location of the Alabama/federal boundary in the Gulf of Mexico; and he has defended a number of nationwide and statewide class action lawsuits in both state and federal courts in Alabama. He has practiced extensively before the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama, has handled a number of environmental lawsuits and regulatory matters, and has authored several of Alabama 's oil and gas statutes and regulations. He is also a frequent speaker at state and national seminars. He is a member of:
Mobile Bar Association (Secretary, 1973); American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Environment, Energy and Resources and Litigation); Alabama State Bar (Member and former Chairman of the Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Section)
Phi Delta Phi, legal fraternity
The Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission Legal Committee since 1979.
The Alabama Oil and Gas Study Committee, a standing committee of the Alabama Legislature.
The Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the
U.S. Oil and Gas Association, Alabama/Mississippi Division.
The Coalbed Methane Association of Alabama
Listed in Who's Who Legal, Oil and Gas Practitioners Section
Listed in Best Lawyers in America for over 20 years
Author of several of Alabama's oil and gas statutes and regulations
- Bar Admissions:
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Alabama
- U.S. District Court Middle District of Alabama
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Alabama
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 1992
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1976
- Education:
- The University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, Alabama,
1971
J.D. - University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee,
1967
B.A.
- Representative Cases:
- State v. Amerada Hess Corp., 788 So.2d 179 (Ala.Civ.App. 2000, cert. den. 2000)
- West Dauphin Ltd. Partnership v. Callon Offshore Production,Inc., 725 So.2d 944 (Ala. 1998)
- Vines v. McKenzie Methane Corp., 619 So.2d 1305 (Ala. 1993)
- NCNB Texas Nat. Bank, N.A. v. West, 631 So.2d 212 (Ala. 1993)
- Callon Institutional Royalty Investors I v. Dauphin Island Property Owners Ass'n, Inc., 569 So,2d 343 (Ala. 1990)
- Dauphin Island Property Owners Ass'n v. Callon institutional Royalty Investors I, 519 So.2d 948 (Ala. 1988)
- State Oil and Gas Bd. of Alabama v. Anderson, 510 So.2d 250 (Ala.Civ.App. 1987)
- State of Ala. V. U.S. Dept. of Interior, 84 F.3d 410 (11th Cir. 1996)
- Eubanks v. Getty Oil Co., 896 F.2d 960 (5th Cir. 1990)
- Clarke County Com'n v. Pruet Production Co., 963 F.Supp 1136 , aff'd 149 F.3d 1195 (S.D.Ala., 1997, 11th Cir, 1998)
- Representative Clients:
- Walter Energy
- J. M. Huber Corporation
- Occidental Petroleum Corporation
- Chevron
- Sklar Exploration Company
- Exxon Mobil
- Pruet Production Company
- Professional Associations and Memberships:
- Alabama Bar Association
- Mobile Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Coalbed Methane Association of Alabama
- U.S. Oil and Gas Association, Alabama/Mississippi Division
- Interstate Oil Compact Commission
- Legal Committee
- Fraternities/Sororities:
- Phi Delta Phi
- Alpha Tau Omega
